Advanced Education courses

The high level of research of the Sant'Anna School is recognized by the results of the Quality Assessment Research (VQR) for 2004-2010 conducted by the ANVUR. The international magazine "Times Higher Education" ranked the school among the best universities in the World University Rankings 2015-2016.

Full Professors

Francesca Chiaromonte

I am a statistician developing methods for the analysis of large, high-dimensional and complex data, and applying such methods in several scientific fields – including contemporary “Omics” sciences, Meteorology and Economics.

I received a Laurea (cum laude) in Statistic and Economic Sciences from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, IT), where I worked with Giovanni Dosi on a thesis titled Processes of Microeconomic Innovation and Macroeconomic Dynamics, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA), where I worked with R. Dennis Cook on a thesis titled A Reduction Paradigm for Multivariate Laws.

At the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies I am a faculty in the Institute of Economics, and I contribute to a novel PhD in Data Science -- established as a consortium with the Scuola Normale Superiore, the University of Pisa, the CNR and the IMT of Lucca. At Penn State (University Park, PA, USA) I work in the Department of Statistics, have a courtesy affiliation with the Department of Public Health Sciences, and I am active in the Institute for Genome Sciences (one of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences), the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and the Center for Medical Genomics.

Other academic institutions where I entertain collaborations and spent time over the years include the MOX laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, IT), the Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi e Informatica of the CNR (Rome, IT), the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics of UCLA (Los Angeles, CA, USA), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Biology of NYU (New York, NY, USA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, AT), and the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe NM, USA).

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Below are my main peer-reviewed publications sorted by area [LAST UPDATED JAN 2017]:

Kelkar Y.D., Eckert K.A. Chiaromonte F. and Makova K.D. (2011) A matter of life and death: how microsatellites emerge in and vanish from the human genome. Genome Research,21(12), 2038-2048. PMID:21994250

Chiaromonte F. and Dosi G. (1993). The microfoundations of competitiveness and their macro-economic implications. Technology and the Wealth of Nations; The Dynamics of Constructed Advantage, C. Freeman, D. Foray (eds). Pinter, London UK, New York NY, 107-134.

Most of my applied research occurs at the interface between Statistics and contemporary “Omics” sciences. This work comprises interdisciplinary collaborations with biologists and computer scientists in which large genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, metagenomic (microbiomes) and metabolomic data sets are analyzed to investigate various aspects of genome dynamics, evolution and function – and to characterize human diseases.

In other interdisciplinary collaborations, I work on Meteorology applications where clustering and re-sampling techniques are used to improve forecast and delineate structure and lifecycle of tropical storms, and on statistical methods for inference and emulation of agent-based models in Economics.

Over the years, my research has been supported by several awards from U.S. funding agencies such as the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and the NSF (National Science Foundation). I am also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association “for outstanding collaborative work in high throughput biology, contributions to methodology in statistics and bioinformatics, commitment to interdisciplinary research, and leadership in developing training programs at the interface of statistics, computation and the life sciences.”

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Below is a selection of representative invited lectures I gave at international conferences and universities (out of ~70) [LAST UPDATED JAN 2017]: